Worth noting that people elected this president in part on the promise to not start wars or do regime changes. Voting for peace did not produce what the voters wanted.

They’re already paying. They’re about to pay more. 😄

This drives everything, doesn’t it. Even when it doesn’t look like it on the surface, look for an upwards redistribution scheme is and you find the logic behind the madness.

WDYM not US taxpayer problem, who paid for the special military operation, that’s supposed to enable oil corpos to “invest”?

I do have a large collection and I haven’t checked the music lib state yet. I have a zfs snapshot from before the upgrade so I could restore if shit hits the fan.

Just upgraded from 10.07. Seems to have gone well. Library scan still going.

This is why labour organizing in the US is so important. “Tax” US multinationals by getting much higher wages.

You just wait till they fail to convict Maduro in their own kangaroo court. I’m loading up on popcorn.

So you’re telling me that China can stop US defence production by doing this one little trick? 🤔

Even if she was willing to collab with the yankees, she no longer can appear that way after the terrorists ran their mouths about that.

Cuba is likely done too.

I simultaneously take offence by the suggestion that Linux is good now and am happy the lamers at PC Gamer are promoting it. Ultimately I won’t be inspecting this particular horse’s teeth. * Quiet grumble noises

Debian, sudo apt install steam-installer.

That’s the best source for this kind of news.

People and countries have to stop respecting US sanctions. Unfortunately it’s not time yet but we’re getting there I think.

Interesting.

What the hell are you talking about? Who is “us” and who is “you” and who’s destabilizing who, and from where?

Isn’t any democratic structure performing coercion through power on people who comprise the minority opinion, by doing what the majority decides?

No disagreement. I just think that there’s a good chance for things to move in the unification direction because of these economic trends over the long haul. Might not happen that way. There’s probably also a good chance to stay status quo for decades. Independece is very unlikely I think because the potential countries to recognize Taiwan are critically dependent on China in various ways, and declining in economic power.

Why terrible?